Interested in joining us? A new video presented by mikeyp4 will tell you all you need to know about our activities and what RPS Historical Group membership offers youtube.com/watch?v=yp_46G…

Applications now open for the Hong Kong History Centre Visiting Scholars/Visiting Students Scheme, for the academic year of 2025-26.

You're invited to our online 'Show-and-Tell' Christmas Social on Monday 9th December 2024 (1900 UK time). Bring your own drinks/nibbles and share items of #photohistory interest (cameras, photographs, books, accessories, etc). Register for Zoom link. events.rps.org/en/rps-histori…

J.E. Hacking, with his wife and daughter, Hong Kong, c. 1910, photographed by Henry Rue. Rue was an accomplished photographer documenting early C20th ex-pat life. Many of his image have been digitised and are available here: hpcbristol.net/collections/ru… #EYAFamily

#ExploreYourArchive The Salvation Army Family Tracing Service works to reconcile #family members who have lost contact. This began in the 1880s with missing person adverts and was in the 1890s known, thrillingly, as The Salvation Army Detective Department! #EYAFamily

Just to remind you the deadline for all applications for visits in the academic year 2025-26 is 5pm, Friday 31 January 2025.😀

【Call for Donations!】 The Hong Kong Collection, based in Special Collections and part of the Hong Kong History Centre, is accepting donations of significant interest to scholars and students seeking to understand the diverse histories of HK. More on: hkhistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/hphk-call/

【檔案徵集】 香港史研究中心現正為大學圖書館特藏部的「香港史檔案特藏」徵集香港史料。 我們現徵集原件相片，包括相片、相簿、底片、明信片或幻燈片等的捐贈，尋找能幫助學者、學生及大眾了解香港歷史具有重要價值的資料。 詳情可參閱： hkhistory.net/hphk-call-c/

Medieval Cathedral Transformed with Stunning New Lighting medievalists.net/2024/12/mediev… #Medieval

Runcorn & Helsby by-election is on Thursday 1st May. 15 candidates! Please keep election leaflets & post them to us. NB Register by 11th April to vote. #Runcorn #Helsby More info: tinyurl.com/yeys5k93. Image: Protectionist Arithmetic, 1928.

The Georgian House Museum is open Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday from 11am to 4pm. Entry is free. For more information on what is here visit bristolmuseums.org.uk/georgian-house…

Blaise Museum is open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 4pm. Entry is free. For more information on events and what you can find here visit bristolmuseums.org.uk/blaise-museum/

8:30pm TODAY on BBC Two #QuizMonday University Challenge, 2023/24 Ep 34 of 37, Queen's, Belfast v Bristol In the last quarter-final, two student teams have one last chance to claim their place in the semi-finals. Amol Rajan asks the questions #Quiz #Quizzing #QuizNight

2 weeks & 2 days until the Runcorn & Helsby by-election (1st May). Please keep election leaflets & post them to us. Help us to keep our UK election leaflet collection up to date! More info: tinyurl.com/yeys5k93. #Runcorn #Helsby

The #Runcorn & #Helsby by-election is on Thursday. “Westminster is champing at the bit to see if Reform UK wins a crucial by-election election against Labour next week. Locals are indifferent.” Nevertheless, do please keep election leaflets for us! Info: tinyurl.com/yeys5k93.

Iconic building's 100th anniversary celebrated bbc.in/4dUPR23

“Cataloguing the Personal Papers of John Addington Symonds” - A new blog by Alexander Taylor now on our blog site: tinyurl.com/hskbr3fh #Bristol #archives #archivists #dog #LGBTQ

Are you an archivist looking to access more training, career professional development or mentoring opportunities? Applications for our Skills Bursaries, worth up to £1000, are open all year round. Find out more and apply: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-secto…

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded 3 new resilience grants to The National Museum of the Royal Navy, Special Collections & Croydon Archives (Museum of Croydon)! Read more about these brilliant projects here: nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-secto… 📷 University of Bristol Library – Special Collections

Our first video of the new series "Hong Kong History Academy" is out! 8 lectures, each comprising 3 sessions. Lecture 1: Swire and Hong Kong Prof. Robert Bickers Session one: Why did the British go to China? youtu.be/1gl_ecm9Tz0